Can\u2019t you Read<\/b><\/p>\n
English novelist William Golding tells with delight of the policewoman in a Wiltshire town near his home who gave him a parking ticket the day after he won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature. \u201cCan\u2019t you read?\u201d she demanded.<\/p>\n
R. W. Apple, Jr., in New York Times<\/p>\n
Clint and Burt<\/b><\/p>\n
A Universal executive dismissed both Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds at a meeting in 1959. To Burt Reynolds: \u201cYou have no talent.\u201d To Clint Eastwood: \u201cYou have a chip on your tooth, your Adam\u2019s apple sticks out too far, and you talk too slow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Ronald Reagan<\/b><\/p>\n
A United Artists executive, dismissing the suggestion that Ronald Reagan be offered the starring role in the movie, The Best Man in 1964: \u201cReagan doesn\u2019t have the Presidential look.\u201d<\/p>\n
From The Experts Speak, 1984, by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky<\/p>\n
Report<\/b><\/p>\n
Title of a New York State legislative document: \u201cSixteenth Annual Report of the Temporary Commission of Investigation of the State of New York. (The Washington Monthly)<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Planning Directory<\/b><\/p>\n
Announcement in the weekly journal Planning: \u201cWe are sorry that the Planning Directory has so far not appeared. This is because it is considerably bigger than originally anticipated and is taking longer to print.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Daily Telegraph, London<\/p>\n
Quit Please!<\/b><\/p>\n
A film studio painted a sign on the roof in letters eight feet high, reading QUIET PLEASE. Instead of keeping noisy airplanes away, the sign brought planes roaring down even lower so pilots could read what it said.<\/p>\n
Funny Funny World<\/p>\n
Lost Checks<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1984, 300 postal workers received their paychecks three days late\u2014because their original checks were lost in the mail. – AP<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Alcohol<\/b><\/p>\n
The list of papers to be read on alcohol and related diseases at a medical conference in England read as follows:<\/p>\n
\u2022 9:15 Alcohol in the blood<\/p>\n
\u2022 10:15 Alcohol in the liver<\/p>\n
\u2022 11:15 Alcohol in the pancreas<\/p>\n
\u2022 12:15 Alcoholism<\/p>\n
\u2022 12:45 Bar opens<\/p>\n
(The Guardian, London)<\/p>\n
Bird Watching<\/b><\/p>\n
Ornithologist and artist Roger Tory Peterson once found that his eyesight was changing, so he went to an optometrist. The man told Peterson that his eyes needed a rest, and that he should take time out from close, detailed work to focus on objects in the distance. \u201cWhat do you advise?\u201d the ornithologist asked. \u201cBird watching,\u201d was the reply.<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Prison Escape<\/b><\/p>\n
In a daring escape from a Sydney, Australia, jail, a prisoner climbed underneath the hood of a truck. At the trucks\u2019 next stop, he clambered out and found himself in the yard of another prison four miles from the first. – UPI<\/p>\n
Source unknown<\/p>\n
Lincoln\u2019s Bed<\/b><\/p>\n
Alistair Cooke writes, \u201cAdlai Stevenson once told me about a curious experience he had relative to Abraham Lincoln. It was 1952. Stevenson had just lost the election to Eisenhower, and had been asked by outgoing President Harry Truman to spend the night at the White House. He was put in the Lincoln Room. When he came to undress, he looked at the bed, shuffled around it, staring in awe. But he could not bring himself to lie in it. He bedded down on the sofa.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know if he was ever apprised of the irony: in Lincoln\u2019s day the bed wasn\u2019t there; the sofa was.\u201d<\/p>\n
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